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Software Development Manager, Amazon Neptune

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/18/2026
Description

Amazon Neptune is a fast, scalable, fully-managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing hundreds of billions of relationships and querying with milliseconds latency, allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune works actively with the Apache TinkerPop Gremlin open-source project.

Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, network security, and many more. Amazon Neptune is built for cloud scalability, durability, availability, and performance.

To learn more about Amazon Neptune visit: https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced, strong, self-motivated software development manager who is excited to solve database problems, handle people management and product prioritization. You will enable and support the engineers on the team to design and deliver new features that drive Neptune's high availability, reliability and performance guarantees to AWS customers. You will participate in project execution to develop cutting-edge database service capabilities while working with amazing team members and stakeholders.

A day in the life

  • Lead the development of cloud-native database
  • Design, implement, test, and deploy database services optimized for cloud environments
  • Mentor engineers and managers while contributing hands-on technical work
  • Drive technical decisions, design tradeoffs, and feature prioritization
  • Partner with senior executives to define business targets and resource planning
  • Build and scale engineering teams through recruitment and talent development
  • Shape technical strategy to deliver innovative solutions for customers

Basic Qualifications

  • 5 years of engineering team management experience
  • 10 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
  • 3 years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience
  • 10 years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
  • Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually


Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Job ID: A3108809

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